brawl on an mta bus. we're going to take a look at what some people say caused this between a driver and passenger. what made these people come to blows on this wednesday, november the 14th. good morning, maryland, i'm charley crowson. megan is off today, but lynette charles is here with a check of the forecast and lauren is watching the roads. more water main breaks, nothing new. still got the problems left over. >>reporter: yes. it's going to be a while. repairs are still under way. i'll have an update on that. but i woke up this morning, first morning that i had frost on my windshield. >> yeah. it's a frosty start to the day. you're going to have frost again tomorrow. cold temperatures setting in across the area. make sure you do have the big coat. let's see what's going on on today's headlines. we can see the temperatures right now coming in right around 34 degrees in glen burnie. we're looking at temperatures close to freezing or below that as we go through the rest of the day. be prepared for this. we're also going to be seeing the temperatures continuing to go through time as they warm up for today, not much of a warmup, only going with about 49 degrees. so it's going to struggle to get to 50. as we look at maryland's most

powerful radar, not much to see, we are nice and clear right now. this will continue as we go through time as well. as we look at what's going on with your hour-by-hour forecast, again, we are looking at plenty of sunshine as we go through the rest of the day. you're waking up at 8:00 this morning, still quite frosty with that temperature coming in at 34 degrees, and then by lunchtime today plenty of sunshine, still quite cold, though, 46 degrees and still chilly by 3:00 for today. 49 degrees is that high temperature. we should be at 58. let's get a check now of the abc 2 time saver traffic with lauren cook. good morning. >>reporter: good morning, lynette. i'm not a fan of this cold weather. please warm it up a little bit. unfortunately season only going to get worse. we are dealing with two water main breaks still in baltimore city, in mount vernon, it's still going to have an impact on all the madison street, but it has reopened. you are actually able to make a left and get downtown on guilford. as the morning rush does progress, you will want to anticipate delays. use 83. this is a look at the scene

yesterday. you can see a lot of work under way. they made significant progress, all of the water had been restored to residents and businesses in the mount vernon neighborhood. but no word yet on when the 30- inch main will be repaired. it could take quite a while. about a mile away from this scene we're still dealing with last week's massive water main break. it continues to shut down north charles street. that's going to be right between north avenue and 21st street. your best alternate routes are 83 and calvert street. you're taking a live look downtown right now at 95 at 395. traffic moving right along. there are no delays through the fort mchenry tunnel or the harbor tunnel. and if you are using the 695 here in parkville, no problems to report. it will be an easy ride. normal conditions, just 11 minutes on the outer loop from 95 up to 83, inner loop also going to be clear down towards 95. the west side of the beltway going to be in great shape as well. you're looking at an 11-minute ride as well on the outer loop from 795 down to 95. that's a look at your abc 2 news time saver traffic.

charley, over to you. news time 6:02. if you are just waking up, we are tracking breaking news on this wednesday. a massive fire injuries a woman and destroys her reisterstown home. abc 2 news' sherree johnson live at bayview hospital. sheree, how's that woman doing? >>reporter: well, at last report she was in critical condition. you know, we just received some information from baltimore county fire department just moments ago, but at last report critical condition. we are actually live here at bayview burn center where she was brought earlier this morning after she was trapped in a fire in her home. now take a look at this video that we shot overnight. that fire started about 1:00 this morning at 20 blake court in reisterstown. when crews arrived, the home was fully engulfed, flames coming from the first and second floors. they found a woman in her 60s on the second floor. she was brought here to bayview burn center with severe burns. we are told that she had burns throughout 50% of her body. now, she is reported to be in

critical condition at this hour. and, you know, it took crews over an hour to put out that fire. they had it under control at about 2:23. and here's what the battalion chief had to say. >> for the firefighters considering the second floor was almost 100% involved so they battledded the way up the steps and found her in one of the bedrooms upstairs. the roof structure collapsed, and second floor. >>reporter: now, i had a chance to talk to some of the firefighters that were on the scene and they told me when they pulled up they did hear smoke detectors going off in the basement area, so they do feel like that the home did have working smoke detectors. right now there's no word on a cause of this fire, but investigators are on the scene trying to figure out exactly what happened. reporting live in south baltimore, sherree johnson, abc 2 news. >> and you can be the first to know, download the abc 2 news' free app by texting wmar

469888. an mta bus driver in baltimore is caught on camera. linda stow is here now with more on that video. i think what everyone is wanting to know right now, linda, is how did this happen? >>reporter: well, charley, it started from a fight. no one knows for sure what that fight was about. but when the video was posted to youtube, it says the bus driver hit the young woman because her music was playing too loud. now that bus driver has been suspended while the mta investigates. take a look at the video. it shows the driver punching and then wrestling the girl to the back of the bus. mta officials say the girl is a student from a local school. the video shows the two scuffling for more than a minute. when they finally separate, the driver says the girl was being disrespectful. the fight happened monday afternoon on the number 40 line bus near baltimore and packa streets. mta police are investigating the incident. >> we have seen the video. we are also attempting to pull the video from the bus so that

we can have a more full picture of what exactly happened in this circumstance. mta police are handling this investigation and once they've had a chance to interview as many witnesses as they can find, talk to the people involved in this, we'll make some determination on how to proceed. >>reporter: now, that driver has been with the mta since 2003. she's been removed from service while the agency investigating. police have been in contact with the girl to get her side of the story. linda stow, abc 2 news. >> amazing video. we'll have that at our website, abc2news.com if you want to check that out again. police are investigating a triple shooting in baltimore city. this happened a little before 9:30 last night on west lafayette street. two men and a woman were wounded. they were all taken to the hospital, but we don't know their conditions right now. we'll have more for you on this story as new information becomes available. and a man is safe after he says he was abducted in baltimore city. that man was taken from the denmore avenue yesterday afternoon. officers found him in howard county. they're still looking for the car. it's a black mercedes with a

tag number dt9995. and a deadly car accident in carroll county. it happened shortly before 10:00 last night on deer park road. police say one person was killed, a number of others were trapped. no word yet on what caused that accident. well, they say it is all about saving lives and today there's another big push for a dollar increase for the state tobacco tax. faith leaders will join education and government officials on a rally on the law in front of the statehouse, that rally for the increased state tax on tobacco begins at 11:00 this morning. a consumer alert for you this morning, toyota is now recalling more than 2 1/2 million cars worldwide because of a glitch in the steering shaft and a defective water pump. the models affected include the prius hybrid, the corolla and the wish. no accidents have been reported related to either problems. we are following breaking news for you on this wednesday morning out of reisterstown. the crews are on the scene of a

two-alarm fire. they knocked it down hours ago. we'll have the latest on the condition of the woman who was trapped inside. and congress back in session with the top priority being a fiscal cliff. today the president will address that and a number of issues when he talks to reporters a bit later this afternoon. and two weeks later and still in the dark, we're going to head to new york where thousands remain without power, now some are claiming negligence on the part of that utility provider. >>reporter: so we're at 27 in fredrick and 32 in easton. i'll tell you how long these cold temperatures linger after the break. >>reporter: traffic is moving right along on 95 just north of 195. i'll let you know how it's shaping up on the beltway and 83 coming up on "good morning maryland." >> you are looking live this morning at times square in new york. let's head that way for a check of today's tech bytes. >>reporter: in today's tek bytes, governments are googling us. the search giant reports a big

increase in requests for data about its users. the u.s. made the most requests and google complied almost all the time. barnes and noble has joined the batful of the seven-inch tablet with its nook hd. it doesn't have as many apps as the this is a remarkably good screen. i watched videos and movies on it, now nook video allows people to rent or buy movies and tv shows. >>reporter: the nook hd starts at $200. a hot new video game got burned by current events in call of duty. about 13 years from now the secretary of defense is david petraeus, the current sex scandal makes a future cabinet post unlikely. those are your tech bytes, i'm paula fairice.

a live look this morning at new york. things just picking up there. a nice sunrise over that skyline. thank you for staying with us here on this wednesday morning. i'm charley crowson. do you remember the back in june also irene from august of 2011? many of you were without power for a number of days, even weeks. that's a similar situation of what's going on for thousands of new yorkers affected by superstorm sandy. now a lawsuit has been filed against the long island power authority claiming gross negligence. >> how much longer can we take this? i mean, i don't understand how unprepared could lipa have been to see that we're here 16 days without power? >> you are hearing from laura brennan there, salt water rushed into her oceanside home, the water heater, boiler failed. she's among the 11.000 homeowners that need repairs before the power can be turned back on.

in response to that criticism, lipa's chief operating officer has resigned. senatorses for seven states including maryland are now asking president barack obama for money in the aftermath of sandy. they're asking the president to add more emergency aid for federal disaster assistance programs into the 2013 budget request. they're hoping for a quick response to help those recovery victims get back on their feet. and when you see things like this, you know, lynette, we said earlier this morning, we keep saying this over and over and you would think relief would be in sight at some point, but it's not. >> it's just pitful at this point. it's really bad. no words can express how we really feel about the situation. >> or closer to home, the cold weather really taking a snap to us. we're at freezing. >> exactly. these temperatures are below average. you're, like, oh, yeah, we're in november now, but, charles, yes, we're still below average. let's talk about these temperatures this morning, charley because we're at 34 degrees in parkville and you're talking about below freezing. yes, we are seeing that in clarksville and also iamsville. that means you need the coat

this morning, dress in layers. layers your friend when it's cold outside. tillman coming in at 38 degrees and we will see these temperatures go up but not so much up because we're still going to stay below average as we go through today. let's check out the satellite and radar right now and we can see the clouds basically around us, we see some to the north, off toward the east, to the west and to the south. but we're in a bubble, this big bubble of high pressure that's going to continue as we go through the next several days. and futuretrend going to pick up on just that. so yesterday that cold front moved through. we were windy, the winds died down overnight. they're going to stay on the light side as we go throughout the day. high pressure still in control, chilly conditions behind that and also dealing with some dryer air behind this cold front as well. with that high pressure you get that sinking air. with the sipging air, the cloud and the air don't lie, so with that you're not going to be dealing with any type of wet weather for the next several days. so get out there, do what you have to do, but before you get outside today, make sure you do dress appropriately because we do have those cold conditions

lingering for a while. futuretrend not picking up on a whole lot as we go through the next several days. you have to follow the timeline to actually see where you are so you don't get lost. plenty of sunshine will continue and even as we go into friday and also saturday. here's your planner for today. as we wake up that temperature still quite frosty outside. and as we go throughout the day, temperature coming in at 46 degrees and then we will start to rise only to 49. so that's the high temperature that i'm going with as we go into the afternoon. the seven-day forecast, yes, the temperatures go up a bit, but we're still looking at these temperatures below. so that's the theme, below average temperatures for the next several days, our next chance for some rain rolls in here on sunday. let's get a check now of the abc 2 news time saver traffic with lauren cook. good morning. >>reporter: good morning, lynette. it's definitely off to a cold start. you will want to crank that heat in the car, maybe turn on the seat warmers this morning. unfortunately we are dealing with repairs to two water main breaks in baltimore. the first in mount vernon, it burst yesterday and it continues to impact traffic on

madison street. now, it is open, you're able to drive that, make a left on guilford avenue to take it downtown, but you will want to expect congestion. use calvert street or 83 instead. and about a mile away we're still dealing with repairs to last week's massive water main break north charles street remains shut down between north avenue and 21st street. again, calbert street will be your best bet there as well. if you are traveling on 83, here's a live look just north of 695. there are no problems right now heading into the city. normal conditions just 11 minutes southbound from the beltway to fayette street. as far as 695 is concerned, no problems to report here in parkville. traffic right along here at hartford road. you're looking at an 11-minute ride on the outer loop from 95 up to 83 and the inner loop also going to be clear as you make the drive down towards 95. normal conditions over on the west side of the beltway. you're looking at a 10-minute ride right now on the outer loop from 795 down to 70. that's a look at your abc 2 news time saver traffic. charley, over to you.

6:16. we're following breaking news for you on this went. a woman is being treated for injuries after flames raced through her reisterstown home. for that we want to go back to abc 2 news' sherree johnson. she's live outside of bayview hospital with more on this woman's condition. >>reporter: we've been in touch with fire officials here. at last report the woman was reported to be in critical condition. yes, we are in front of johns hopkins bayview medical center where the woman was brought here just a few hours ago after fire broke out at her home. take a look at this video that we shot earlier this morning. that fire broke out about 1:00 this morning at 20 blake court in reisterstown. when the crews arrived the home were was fully engulfed in flames on the first and second floors. they found a woman in her 60s on the second floor. she was brought here to bayview burn center with severe burns. we're told over 50% of her body is burned and she's reported to be in critical condition. now, it took about an hour for crews to put out this fire. it was actually under control at about 2:20 and then they

sort of worked on the hot spots for just a little bit. now, firefighters actually helped battle this fire and basically crews on the scene told me that once they pulled up they heard the smoke detectors going off in the basement area. so they feel that smoke detectors did work in this home. right now they do not have a cause of the fire, pu fire investigators were on the scene trying to fine what exactly happened here this morning. reporting live in east baltimore, sherree johnson, abc 2 news. happening today, pacapso high school is launching an anti-bullying initiative. students will take part in an assembly and take a pledge to prevent bullying. there will be a roundtable discussion with select students and staff and hip-hop artist and actor from "the wire" trey cheney will be in attendance for that assembly. new research is telling us this morning what's going on with bullying. a study says children identified as bullies were three times more likely to be diagnosed with mental health problems. a lot of these kids have mental health issues like

depression, anxiety, oppositional defiant disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or ad/hd. so these are kids who are already struggling with their own stuff, and then they're acting out and bullying other children. >> researchers found children diagnosed with oppositional defiant disorder were hostile and angry maifers often directed authority figures were six times more likely to turn to bullying. turning a life of crime into making a quick buck. we'll tell you a bizarre story of a delivery driver whose car was stolen while he was on the job and the thief. what the thief kept doing to make some money. and earlier we told you about a plood drive for the family of david beroe. now it appears humans aren't the only ones giving blood for the gift of life. we'll show you how the donations have gone to the dogs. a live look at the falls in patterson, new jersey. a beautiful start to the day.

still plenty in the dark.

and welcome back to "good morning maryland," 65 degrees under partly cloudy skies.

in miami south beach expected to reach a high today of around 80. lynette is jealous. welcome back to "good morning maryland." a delivery driver says he thought this whole thing was a prank when his car full of chinese food was stolen. it happened in hartford, connecticut and the story gets even more bizarre. this may be the story of the day because somehow those orders from the stolen car made it to the customers. >> that morning i was watching like a prank show with my brother, as my brother and him were in on it and that's in my head. man, it wasn't. i was just, like, crazy. >> instead of taking off with the car, the thief kept delivering the food to get the money. so the delivery driver gave the police the list of his expected stops and sure enough that's where they tracked down the guy. guy, the car, the food and the cash. lauren cook joins us now with today's caption this. >>reporter: another good picture. today's picture was sent in by susan. it's of her white lab eliza

jane who is practicing good hygiene. we posted a picture on our facebook. it's generate add lot of comments. dave wrote your breath stinks. christine says i found the brush, now where's the toothpaste. sharon says i need a chewy, this isn't working and alan saying dad's not going to like this prank but you can put the brush back on the sink now. so please keep your captions coming. we're really enjoying them. and i need some caption this photos to run this week and next week. e-mail yours to pix@wmar.com. >> dogs are not only man's best friend, they're also helping other animals. get this, a boxer named winston donates his blood every few months to help save the lives of other pets. when his owners first met him he was seriously wounded, starving and infected but he has since been nursed back to health. >> he's doing very, very well. dogs and cats need blood just like we do in emergency situations. >> well, his blood most recently saved a 9-year-old

yorkie who had lost blood during an operation. a house explodes after a plane comes crashing through a roof. we'll tell you what witnesses say happened just minutes before this aircraft fell from the sky and let you know that when you see this someone survived. plan w=!nño

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crews are on scene of a baltimore county house fire that sent one person to the hospital . we'll bring you the latest on the woman's condition and show you the fire just after it started. sex, lies and shirtless photos. we'll bring you the latest on the developing scandal out of the cia also involving some top military. those living along one baltimore county road say they want something done about windsor mill road and they want it done now on this wednesday, november 14th. good morning, maryland, i'm charley crowon. megan is off today, but lynette charles is here with a check of that forecast. you say it was a frost out there. i have to admit, i grabbed my coat. >> i know, you got the big heavy coat this morning. that's the key. those are the key word, big and heavy, warm is another one, not just a regular coat because you are going to be cold if you do so. look at the temperature in jessup. it is freezing right now. and we are going